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mental ability

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Noun1.mental ability - the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
capacity
ability, power - possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
prescience, prevision - the power to foresee the future


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Thus, in the most brutal and formidable of the soldier class -- creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence -- it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
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